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"I have been journeying in different parts of Greece for these last four months, and you may expect me in England somewhere about April, but this is very dubious."

"I shall begin by telling you, having only told it you twice before, that I swam from Sestos to Abydos."

"I have just arrived at this place after a journey through Portugal, and a part of Spain, of nearly 500 miles."

"I am very happy here [Lisbon], because I loves oranges, and talk bad Latin to the monks ..."

The "Lisbon Packet" letter. Seemingly spontaneous, the letter is a fair copy, with one stanza to a page – though that doesn’t spoil the fun. [PSC]

"As I have just escaped from a physician and a fever which confined me five days to bed, you wont expect much “allegrezza” in the ensuing letter."

"I am on my way to Constantinople after a turn through Greece Epirus &c and part of Asia minor, some particulars of which I have just communicated to our friend & Host H. Drury, with these then I shall not trouble you. –"

"I think, upon the whole, I was more grieved at leaving Greece, than England, which I am impatient to see, simply because I am tired of a long voyage."

"I have to thank you for a packet of letters by the hands of Mr. Hume."

"I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. "